Development Without Industrialization? Household Well-Being and Premature Deindustrialization. Issue 3 (3rd July 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Greenstein, Joshua
• Is Part Of: Journal of economic issues. Volume 53:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 612
• Page End: 633
• Publication Date: 2019-07-03
• Subjects: deindustrialization -- multidimensional well-being -- inequality -- economic development; I30 -- I32 -- O14 -- O10; Economics -- Periodicals; Economics; Économie politique -- Périodiques; Economie; ECONOMICS; ECONOMIC POLICY; Periodicals; 330.05
• DOI: 10.1080/00213624.2019.1634452
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0021-3624

Abstract

Abstract: The effect of premature deindustrialization on the distribution of gains from growth has thus far been understudied. Using census data from eleven countries spanning five decades and shift-share analysis, I find evidence of persistent gaps in multidimensional well-being in household categories defined by employment type and urban/rural location, and a cross-country pattern of less improvement due to expansion of industrial employment over time, without adequate replacement. Taken together, these results provide evidence for a negative relationship between improvements in household well-being and premature deindustrialization on both an individual country case and in a cross-country sample.